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They want to make sure that the next jury thinks twice about convicting. Truly chilling and completely unsurprising after Trump has been stoking them with lies every day.
This was America's first and closest foray into fascist takeover, the same exact way that other democracies have fallen this last century or longer.
Just because it was really dumb this time, and in the end the guilty party was actually found guilty by the law, we are nowhere close to out of danger on this front.
Trump will be dead in a few short years and we're all going to stop talking about him, this is assured, and in that huge, gaping power vacuum with millions of followers ripe for the plucking, they're going to be coerced by some new figure and led to the exact same ideas about burning the country to the ground just so they have a leader who "hurts the right people." And this new leader of the vulnerable masses might not be so dumb or so wildly delusional and may actually succeed at the same exact plan.
Get more involved in your local politics people, state, county, city and community elections are what prop up fascists in the upper reaches. Know who is actually representing you.
He was not found guilty of an attempted fascist takeover. This is the falsified business records case. It's the most trivial case against him. Going after the jurors who convicted him in this case is going to be chilling on the juries for the cases that matter so much more.
I would, and think it was a good idea both times.
I have basic amenities, I have a home, I have people who love me and would miss me, but what I don't have in life is satisfaction that I've done the right thing and contributed more to society than I took away.
Convicting Trump every single opportunity would give me the greatest joy I could ever achieve. Every rude phone call or thrown brick would fill me with happiness that I've wounded the great dying beast that we have been battling for hundreds of years in this nation.